James Dacre Carlyle

CARLYLE, James Dacre. b. Carlisle, Cumberland, 4 June 1758; d. Newcastle upon Tyne, 12 April 1804. He was educated at Kirby Lonsdale, and at Carlisle Grammar School. He entered Christ’s College, Cambridge, in 1775, moving to Queens’ College in February 1778 (BA 1779). He took Holy Orders and became a Fellow of Queens’ College (MA 1783, BD 1793). He took lessons in Arabic from a private tutor, and became so proficient that he was appointed Professor of Arabic at Cambridge in 1795. He had also retained a connection with his native city by becoming Chancellor of the diocese of Carlisle in 1793 (successor to the famous William Paley). He published Specimens of Arabian Poetry, from the earliest...